Democracy, My Ass

One of my favorite lefty sound-bites is that Trump is “destroying democracy.” Yet Trump sits in the Oval Office because of democracy—312 electoral votes, 2.2 million popular-vote margin. Democracy working exactly as the Founders drew it up.

If the left had its way, they’d install whoever they want and tell the 78 million Trump voters to pound sand. So, who’s really trying to kill democracy?

And while we’re at it—what the hell is democracy?

Democracy began in Athens around 508 BC, where adult male citizens voted directly on laws. Pure majority rule. Mob rule. That’s why James Madison called it the violence of majority faction and built the American guardrails: a republic, not a direct democracy; separation of powers; Bill of Rights; supermajorities for big changes; judicial review. The U.S. version: We the People elect representatives who swear to protect our rights even when 50.1% of us vote to take them away.

I don’t think many people even know what democracy is. And according to Ayn Rand, it may not be all it’s cracked up to be. Rand was a Russian-born novelist-philosopher (1905–1982) who watched the Bolsheviks steal her father’s pharmacy. She wrote Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead, invented Objectivism, and hated collectivism in every flavour. Here’s the quote that just made every pinko’s head explode:

They tell us that we must defend South Vietnam’s right to hold a ‘democratic’ election, and to vote itself into communism, if it wishes, provided it does so voluntarily and by majority vote. But I submit that if a majority of a given country chose to establish dictatorship or communism, that would be a moral treason to all men everywhere, and the citizens of that country would have forfeited their right to exist.[1]

Consider what’s happening with recent elections. On November 4, 2025, Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Muslim born in Uganda, won the New York City mayoralty with 50.4% of the vote. He’s the first openly democratic-socialist mayor in NYC history. The right calls him “communist lite” because he wants rent freezes city-wide, universal childcare, free buses, and a city-owned grocery chain. He is a self-identified democratic socialist and longtime member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and campaigned heavily on policies to “tax the rich” in order to fund public services like free buses, universal childcare, rent freezes, and city-owned grocery stores. In his victory speech after winning the NYC mayoral election, Mamdani quoted Eugene Debs (the five-time Socialist Party presidential candidate who ran his 1920 campaign from federal prison after being jailed for opposing World War I), opening with: “The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said, ‘I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.’” The DSA has celebrated his win as a major milestone for socialism.

In Virginia the same night, Abigail Spanberger crushed Winsome Earle-Sears 57–43% to become the state’s first female governor. The right calls her “communism’s Trojan horse” because she pushed Medicaid-for-all, state-run wind farms, and a $15 minimum wage indexed to inflation. She campaigned on Trump’s federal layoffs hurt Northern Virginia families—Richmond will take care of you, backed by AOC, Bernie, and the DSA youth wing.

Most sheep, if they align with the left (don’t they all?), are pink around the edges. Many outright claim it. Prominent card-carriers still in office include Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who still calls himself a democratic socialist, plus AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman—all DSA. Over 250 DSA members hold office nationwide, 90% elected post-2019.

Democratic socialism is “capitalism with Nordic sprinkles” on the brochure. Reality: state ownership of key industries, worker co-ops, wealth taxes that make billionaires cry. It’s threatening to the right—hell yes. To the average conservative, “free” healthcare and college sound great until you realize the bill comes from your paycheck, not a magic money tree. They see the Nordic model for what it is: high taxes, cultural homogeneity, and a population the size of Ohio—not a scalable blueprint for 330 million Americans with 50 different economies. Nationalizing energy and banking “for the planet” means government bureaucrats deciding who gets power and who gets loans, not markets. And once the state owns the means of production, competition dies, innovation stalls, and shortages begin—just ask anyone who waited three years for a Trabant (the government-issued standard automobile) in East Germany. The right sees the trap: once regular people realize they can vote to take money from the rich and give it to themselves, the game is over. The minority who create the wealth get crushed, property rights vanish, and the system collapses into one-party rule. Socialism and communism are not democratic; they’re democratic only until the majority votes away the minority’s rights. Then the masks come off—see Cuba, Venezuela, every “people’s republic” ever.

It seems to me the socialist path will throw democracy under the bus the second it gains full power. That’s not hyperbole; it’s the playbook. Lenin called parliamentary socialists “useful idiots.” Once the state owns everything, elections become a rubber stamp. Ask anyone who fled Havana or Caracas.

Meaning if anyone is dead set on destroying democracy, it’s the left.

As I said, the left is obsessed with something they themselves want nothing to do with. Democracy. The democratic majority (of the nation, not the cities) do not want trans surgeries for 12-year-olds, rampant illegal immigration, $36 trillion deficits, forced needles, speech jail for “misinformation,” digital cash that expires if you buy too many burgers, a social-credit score tied to your pronouns, vaccine-passport apps, or CBDC “equity wallets” that let City Hall turn your money on and off. The left, the minority (of the nation, not the cities) want all of these things. And every time the left wins a majority vote, that’s exactly what they roll out.

Yes, they are voting, and they are winning important elections. But once the nation is full full-fledged socialist (communist), democracy will become a thing of the past.

The left fears the loss of democracy? Give me a break. They’re not afraid democracy will die. They’re afraid it might live—and vote them out.

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[1] Rand, A. (1967). The wreckage of the consensus. In Capitalism: The unknown ideal (pp. 226–227). New American Library. (Original work delivered as a lecture 1967)